This story takes you from Rio, to DC and New Orleans as we follow our main characters Tristan Red, hero turned mercenary after being nearly killed in battle, and his ex-girlfriend Isabel Foster. Tristan, whose real last name is Stone, losses his memory after a fierce battle in the military that nearly kills him. "The Company" takes advantage of their opportunity at getting their hands on another deadly and highly successful mercenary.Given a name, Tristan travels the world taking people out, one by one. A part of him intuits the need for 'insurance' and he keeps a red ledger of all of his conquests. Until he is directed to taken out Isabel Foster.
Isabel, a US citizen teaching in Rio after the love of her life, Tristan Stone, disappears, is in a half-hearted relationship with Kolt Mirchoff, another American who pursues her endlessly for more than the friendship they started. Heart still bruised and missing Tristan, she is just unwilling and unable to commit her heart to anyone else.
Tristan locates Isabel and is mere moments from killing her when she speaks his name, shocking him into stillness and confusion and bursts of his memory slowly begin to return. When The Company discovers that he has not achieved his directive, they send backup and Tristan, knowing that this will likely occur but desperate to know more about himself and about this woman he is passionately drawn to, goes on the run with Isabel. Who and why does someone want her dead? These are questions he has never asked before. And the answer is complicated, going back decades to her family's connection to Chalys Pharmaceuticals.....the front for The Company.
This is a fast-paced storyline with great complexity. I felt that it could have gone into more depth with all of the characters as well as more detail about the three locations the story takes place in. Could easily have seen this as a successful trilogy with those efforts. It is a good read, but I would have liked to have seen it as a great one.
Isabel, a US citizen teaching in Rio after the love of her life, Tristan Stone, disappears, is in a half-hearted relationship with Kolt Mirchoff, another American who pursues her endlessly for more than the friendship they started. Heart still bruised and missing Tristan, she is just unwilling and unable to commit her heart to anyone else.
Tristan locates Isabel and is mere moments from killing her when she speaks his name, shocking him into stillness and confusion and bursts of his memory slowly begin to return. When The Company discovers that he has not achieved his directive, they send backup and Tristan, knowing that this will likely occur but desperate to know more about himself and about this woman he is passionately drawn to, goes on the run with Isabel. Who and why does someone want her dead? These are questions he has never asked before. And the answer is complicated, going back decades to her family's connection to Chalys Pharmaceuticals.....the front for The Company.
This is a fast-paced storyline with great complexity. I felt that it could have gone into more depth with all of the characters as well as more detail about the three locations the story takes place in. Could easily have seen this as a successful trilogy with those efforts. It is a good read, but I would have liked to have seen it as a great one.